Whether autumn is your favorite time of the year, or if you are just getting through another season, it is crucial to ensure that your your healthy habits need to stay with you while you are embracing the new season.
So how do we keep our healthy habits with us while we welcome this time of the year? Try out the tips to help you prioritize your health and wellness all autumn long...
Hey, I wanted to share this really neat website that I found. I think that you will really enjoy it. It is called Well for Joy, and the entire purpose of the website is to promote health, happiness, and leading a joyful life.
I think that this website will speak right to the things that you are hoping to accomplish in your life. Well for Joy really focuses on the importance of holistic health. Making sure that the body, mind, and soul are in balance and harmonious.
The author of Well for Joy is upfront about the fact that they are not a medical doctor and aren't looking to give any medical advice or use complicated ideas to help promote wellness. Instead, the focus is on eating healthy, ensuring that you participate in reasonable amounts of exercise, and keeping a healthy mindset.
I really like that all of the information on the website is from the author's real-life experiences and approaches that are working for real people. All of the posts on the website are written using language that is easy to understand and follow. And the posts cover a vast number of topics. I guarantee there will be something that will pertain to you and your life!
My favorite thing about the Well for Joy website is the focus on being healthy in all ways and creating a good foundation for happiness and joyful life. So many resources seem to focus on only one aspect of our health, and it is genuinely refreshing to find a resource that is so well rounded and takes a multifaceted approach. I really encourage you to visit the Well for Joy website and check it out. I think that you will understand why I find it so incredible and why I just had to share it with you!
Just because we’re in our middle years doesn’t mean we should be healthy and fit and enjoy working out.
In this video I run you through the equipment I used and in the description below I show you what the workout routine was.
Being fit, eating healthy and losing weight is great motivation for an awesome workout.
Exercising outside is brilliant, getting close to nature without any noise or listening to your music, either way it’s a totally different feeling from exercising inside.
With gym's closed and working out at home the norm these days why not expand your horizons and workout in the park? We normally think of and expect to see people jogging in the park and open spaces but even taking 10-15 minutes to stretch or mobilise is refreshing and vitalising. You've probably of 'forst bathing' where people lay in the woods among the trees and relax. It's a well known therapy practice in Japan that aids in relaxation.
The point is, the experiences are very similar, getting close to nature and allowing yourself to relax and settle is theraputic in the stresses of everyday urban life.
Warm Up
15 minute of stretching, mobilising and shadow boxing, running on the spot etc.
Viper x 3
15 x clean and press
15 x single arm bicep curl
15 x shoulder press
15 x bent over row
Kettle bell x3
15 x deep squat bell held on chest with 2 hands
15 x double arm swing
Mobility x 3
Run 150 meters
Side shuffle x 25
Front lunge x 24
Band work stretching shoulders and back
Cool Down
Walk 200 meters
Bar hang 55 second aiming for 2 minutes
Wooden pole stretch routine 18 minutes
1: It’s fun. The more you enjoy your exercise routine, the more likely you are to stick with it. Many people say they have so much fun dancing that they actually forget they are actually exercising.
2: Its great for weight loss. Zumba dance workouts are a powerful exercise with a 600 to 1,000 calorie burn in just an hour.
3: It tones your entire body. You may feel sore in places you never knew existed, but it gets results. Zumba dance workouts target lots of different muscle groups at once for total body fitness and toning.
4: It boosts your heart health. You not only get aerobic benefits (high intensity interval training), you also get anaerobic benefits – the kind that help you maintain a good cardiovascular respiratory system.
5: It helps you de-stress. Turning your attention to dance, and away from the daily grind, is a great way to relieve stress. Studies show that exercise is very effective at reducing fatigue, improving alertness and concentration, and enhancing multiple mental abilities such as learning, thinking, reasoning, remembering, problem solving, decision making and attention.
6: It improves coordination. In dance workouts your arms and legs are generally moving in different directions so it requires a good deal of coordination. Repeated practice improves coordination and helps you feel more comfortable moving your body.
7: It makes you happy. Every time you exercise, you release endorphins which trigger positive feelings throughout the body. And you can do it from home right now without paying for gym memberships.
Ready to try it? Start with these great dance moves and don’t be afraid! Zumba dance workout are great fun and can be adapted to any fitness level.
Kettlebell workouts in the park in the morning is a cracking way to start the day, making the most of the fresh air while working out. Smashing!
This kettlebell workout hits just about every muscle group in the body, this is one of the best kinds of functional training
However, one of the problems with kettlebell workots in the park is there’s so much bad advice out there. Videos showing bad form using just about every piece of workout gear there is. I see people demonstrating the kettlebell swing so badly that they are almost asking people to damage their backs! As with ALL exercise’s technique is paramount. Before you go onto to lift heavy weights or do intense routines take the time to work on your technique first.
A bit of time spent understanding the movements and breaking them down simple steps will benefit your training tremendously. It will guard against injuries because most injuries come from bad technique, you’ll see better progress as you apply the correct posture and technique.
In this video, I give specific tips on how to use kettlebell workouts in the park safely and with good form to guard against injuries. You’ll notice at several pints I emphasise how you must tighten your belly and core to protect against damaging your back, and I speak from personal experience of this.
As part of a group, I used to train with a small framed older woman, she had about 6 or 7 years on me and weighed about half of what I did. However, I was always amazed by her strength and ability to work with much heavier kettlebells than me! Imagine how surprised I was when I saw her doing kettlebell swings with 16kg or 18kg weights, or dead lifts with 20kg when I was a sometimes using 6kg or 4 kg lighter than her!
She had better technique than I did and had built her core strength up to tak ethat kind of weight. I learned a lesson doing kettlebell workouts in the park with her, she inspired me to work on my form and technique to help improve my overall fitness. I mentioned above about how kettlebell training is a great functional fitness workout, it hits just about every muscle group in the body.
With functional training in mind you are trying to mimick everyday movements the body does in daily life. the training at middle aged men’s health and fitness is focused on this approach. Functional movements are aimed at helping guys our age cope better with everyday lifethis kettlebell workouts in the park is aimed at working all the major muscle groups.. For instance, your wife tells you to clean out the garage and you might have to lift a couple of heavy boxes. By practicing exercises such as squats, bent over rows and say the farmers walk wiyth kettlebells you’ve already prepared your body for the box lifting manoeuver enough times to know thw right technique to keep your back safe.
You legs will be strong enough, your back and core will be working together and your shoulders and arms will be able to cope with to lifting a heavy box and carrying it too the car.
Check out more workouts in the park here.
